Better yet, Brasília. Brazil's capital is pretty safe, is a good air hub, weather is nice (if 30C and 12% humidity is considered nice), traffic is bellow average.
All telecom carriers on Brazil must block access to WhatsApp servers. 3G/4G, and cable are affected. The only Brazilian users still with WhatsApp access are those using a proxy or VPN server outside Brazil. Like me.
A few years ago you would be saying "You basically have two major players in mobile OS, Symbian and BlackBerry OS. I don't see that changing..."
Blackberry is dead, Nokia is dead. Android and iOS will die someday too. Ubuntu may be a very very small player, but the licensing and cost will appeal to very low cost hardware makers, and maybe someday Ubuntu phones can flood Chinese and Indian markets. Or they could die as Windows mobile.
Yes, it will protect you. The government will still be able to intercept and listen to your calls, data and text, but they will be encrypted and they will not be able to know what you were talking about.
Expect NSA to hack Silent Circle to obtain the keys, though...
No, it's not that horrible. England have about 16.000 miles (kilometers? I don't remember) of coast. The proposed generators will take about 30 miles. There will be plenty of coast left to all marine species. It's not a full perimeter siege, it's just a few barricades here and there.
Bonus points: it wont flood any place in land that is not actually flooded twice a day, it won't send more carbon into the air, will not release any radioactive isotopes, does not need a lot of rare metals, will not increase temperature.
They don't need storage. During the peak production hours of the tidal generators, the coal and oil plants can be shut down, decreasing pollution and cutting production costs. They output will be ramped up as needed, when the tidal generators stop to work.
He knows what he is saying. He said that if you are targetted in a high-skill, high-focus attack, it's basically game over.
It's like defending yourself from a random mugging on the streets and surviving a professional hitman. You can make it harder to be attacked by a random hacker or a unfocused hacker, but it's impossible to defend yourself from all kinds of attacks of a very skilled hacker focused on attacking you.
No, this will not solve the problem. The main issue is at protocol level, not cellphone level. Even with a secured phone, the attack can be silently executed.
The only defense is using encrypted calls and encrypted text messages.
It's because you are using the cryptocoin wrong. They are not means of holding wealth, but as means of transfering wealth.
If I need to transfer EUR from USA to France, I will have to pay my local bank in USD, convert to EUR, pay the transfer fees, and my counterpart will have to pay some fees there too. Depending on the amount, we both will have to explain something to our governments too.
Using bitcoin I just buy some coins, send them, and my counterpart sells them. Nice, easy, fast, and no taxes, fees or government explanations to give.
People keeps bitcoins on hand because it is increasing in price, but they were not intended to be used like this. You can use as you wish, but if the market breaks down, it's all your fault.
To things explode, you need combustible and oxidant. You have only the combustible, and the oxigen from air is not enough to make the shipo explode. And if you look closely, the well are deep underwater.
What, then, am I missing? What is this "Linux desktop" that everyone claims is not yet here?
Yes, you are missing something...
I am a Linux desktop user since 2001. Things now are way better than then, when./configure && make && sudo make install where required to almost anything. When drivers where a problem, and other quirks.
But the Year of Linux on Destop will happen when Linux marketshare hits double digits. When you see hardware with stickers featuring a small penguin and "Linux compatible" bellow it. Before that, there's no Linux on mainstream desktop.
When Linux ceases to being "nerd's operational system", we would be there. But not yet.
But with Microsoft messing up with every OS release, tablets and phones dominating even the console area, web apps doing almost everything, and the PC market disappearing, I think we will be there soon. As soon as we realize that the desktop market is not that important anymore...
This is a quick and dirty procedure and leaves the update itself in an indeterminate state.
Quick if you live in an area with lots of cloned Windows around.
Not that quick if you have to call a few friends, ask they Windows' versions, get a match, grab a pendrive, drop by the friend's house, copy the files, use the friend's computer to download and burn a rescue disk, drive home, and proceed to step 2.
If any government gets to know that you have an exploit for a very secure system they are targeting, you will surely be contacted and will earn a lot of money. Disclosing the vulnerability to the mantainers will destroy a great part of the value.
I would tell it's FUD if the vulns were advertised by some competing Linux distro.
EMP pulse? What dystopian Matrix-like world do you live in?
No, it's not paranoia. It would be accidental, not some nasty action from any government. EMP can arise from some special situations.
Several years (decades) ago, a design error on a computer power source created an EMP every time you turned it on. If you left any storage media around, it would corrupt data.
Where I live, there are some devices used to demagnetize smart tags on supermarkets, they create a small EMP too, and could cause problems to the chip.
I have read the same news from another source, and was discussing it with my coworkers. I can see at least four downsides:
1 - We still have to transpose a barrier on implanted chips. People don't like this idea.
2 - It can and will be interfered with, and make women pregnant when they don't want to. Even they trying to make the chip hard to interfere with, everybody working with tech knows that is not always possible. And a small chip on the hands of thousands of people will be a valuable target.
3 - It can malfunction. Like the above, things go wrong, and a recently implanted chip going crazy and releasing all its hormones on the body of a midterm pregnant woman will be nasty. It is made to not be removed even in the event of a pregnancy, so it's possible to happen.
4 - It can be damaged by an EMP pulse. If it's implanted on the arm, the body will get in contact with a lot of sources of electromagnetic radiation, like microwave ovens, cell phones and other transmitters, car ignition systems, and so on. Those sources can interfere with the chip.
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You will need something that survives way above 60C if this thing will be kept in a metal box in Texas, in the summer...
Better yet, Brasília. Brazil's capital is pretty safe, is a good air hub, weather is nice (if 30C and 12% humidity is considered nice), traffic is bellow average.
It was stolen in Brazil, so it will probably end up on MercadoLivre or OLX.
All telecom carriers on Brazil must block access to WhatsApp servers. 3G/4G, and cable are affected. The only Brazilian users still with WhatsApp access are those using a proxy or VPN server outside Brazil. Like me.
If his phone charger is only 50% efficient, it will be very hot. And it will be on the top of the list of the most inneficient charges ever built.
A few years ago you would be saying "You basically have two major players in mobile OS, Symbian and BlackBerry OS. I don't see that changing..."
Blackberry is dead, Nokia is dead. Android and iOS will die someday too. Ubuntu may be a very very small player, but the licensing and cost will appeal to very low cost hardware makers, and maybe someday Ubuntu phones can flood Chinese and Indian markets. Or they could die as Windows mobile.
I use Avast firewall. On it, I can select what kind of internet access all my programs can have: Wifi only, data plan + Wifi, or none.
For me, is good enough.
Yes, it will protect you. The government will still be able to intercept and listen to your calls, data and text, but they will be encrypted and they will not be able to know what you were talking about.
Expect NSA to hack Silent Circle to obtain the keys, though...
I think they meant "the first laggon power plants in UK, not the world's first.
No, it's not that horrible. England have about 16.000 miles (kilometers? I don't remember) of coast. The proposed generators will take about 30 miles. There will be plenty of coast left to all marine species. It's not a full perimeter siege, it's just a few barricades here and there.
Bonus points: it wont flood any place in land that is not actually flooded twice a day, it won't send more carbon into the air, will not release any radioactive isotopes, does not need a lot of rare metals, will not increase temperature.
They don't need storage. During the peak production hours of the tidal generators, the coal and oil plants can be shut down, decreasing pollution and cutting production costs. They output will be ramped up as needed, when the tidal generators stop to work.
That's called addiction...
Exercising increases the release of endorphin on the brain, and some people got addicted to it.
The expression adrenaline junkie is to be taken literally sometimes.
I don't think aging people on their 70's will care much about fertility...
Too bad you must pay the shipping...
He knows what he is saying. He said that if you are targetted in a high-skill, high-focus attack, it's basically game over.
It's like defending yourself from a random mugging on the streets and surviving a professional hitman. You can make it harder to be attacked by a random hacker or a unfocused hacker, but it's impossible to defend yourself from all kinds of attacks of a very skilled hacker focused on attacking you.
No, this will not solve the problem. The main issue is at protocol level, not cellphone level. Even with a secured phone, the attack can be silently executed.
The only defense is using encrypted calls and encrypted text messages.
You go to the gateway (there are two banks in the US, IIRC), and get your money.
It's because you are using the cryptocoin wrong. They are not means of holding wealth, but as means of transfering wealth.
If I need to transfer EUR from USA to France, I will have to pay my local bank in USD, convert to EUR, pay the transfer fees, and my counterpart will have to pay some fees there too. Depending on the amount, we both will have to explain something to our governments too.
Using bitcoin I just buy some coins, send them, and my counterpart sells them. Nice, easy, fast, and no taxes, fees or government explanations to give.
People keeps bitcoins on hand because it is increasing in price, but they were not intended to be used like this. You can use as you wish, but if the market breaks down, it's all your fault.
Surprisingly nothing!
To things explode, you need combustible and oxidant. You have only the combustible, and the oxigen from air is not enough to make the shipo explode. And if you look closely, the well are deep underwater.
A very mutable virus paired with a lethal one. Used in a spray. Ok, go ahead.
What, then, am I missing? What is this "Linux desktop" that everyone claims is not yet here?
Yes, you are missing something...
./configure && make && sudo make install where required to almost anything. When drivers where a problem, and other quirks.
I am a Linux desktop user since 2001. Things now are way better than then, when
But the Year of Linux on Destop will happen when Linux marketshare hits double digits. When you see hardware with stickers featuring a small penguin and "Linux compatible" bellow it. Before that, there's no Linux on mainstream desktop.
When Linux ceases to being "nerd's operational system", we would be there. But not yet.
But with Microsoft messing up with every OS release, tablets and phones dominating even the console area, web apps doing almost everything, and the PC market disappearing, I think we will be there soon. As soon as we realize that the desktop market is not that important anymore...
This is a quick and dirty procedure and leaves the update itself in an indeterminate state.
Quick if you live in an area with lots of cloned Windows around.
Not that quick if you have to call a few friends, ask they Windows' versions, get a match, grab a pendrive, drop by the friend's house, copy the files, use the friend's computer to download and burn a rescue disk, drive home, and proceed to step 2.
I don't think this is FUD.
If any government gets to know that you have an exploit for a very secure system they are targeting, you will surely be contacted and will earn a lot of money. Disclosing the vulnerability to the mantainers will destroy a great part of the value.
I would tell it's FUD if the vulns were advertised by some competing Linux distro.
EMP pulse? What dystopian Matrix-like world do you live in?
No, it's not paranoia. It would be accidental, not some nasty action from any government. EMP can arise from some special situations.
Several years (decades) ago, a design error on a computer power source created an EMP every time you turned it on. If you left any storage media around, it would corrupt data.
Where I live, there are some devices used to demagnetize smart tags on supermarkets, they create a small EMP too, and could cause problems to the chip.
I have read the same news from another source, and was discussing it with my coworkers. I can see at least four downsides:
1 - We still have to transpose a barrier on implanted chips. People don't like this idea.
2 - It can and will be interfered with, and make women pregnant when they don't want to. Even they trying to make the chip hard to interfere with, everybody working with tech knows that is not always possible. And a small chip on the hands of thousands of people will be a valuable target.
3 - It can malfunction. Like the above, things go wrong, and a recently implanted chip going crazy and releasing all its hormones on the body of a midterm pregnant woman will be nasty. It is made to not be removed even in the event of a pregnancy, so it's possible to happen.
4 - It can be damaged by an EMP pulse. If it's implanted on the arm, the body will get in contact with a lot of sources of electromagnetic radiation, like microwave ovens, cell phones and other transmitters, car ignition systems, and so on. Those sources can interfere with the chip.